Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEGRO IN AMERICA (from Birmingham jail, 1963): Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands...
...would accept a fair draft." Many sophisticated Europeans suspected that Johnson hoped to duplicate the feat of Egypt's Nasser, who "quit" after the disastrous war with Israel in 1967 but was restored to power by popular demand. "Is this a false exit," wondered Paris' Le Monde, designed "to stop the rapid decline of his popularity and make for himself a plebiscite of tears...
...impressed by consortium claims that the world oil mar ket is already glutted. Last month, when several of the consortium's member companies started drilling for offshore Saudi Arabian oil in the Persian Gulf, the Shah was so incensed that he dis patched patrol boats to stop the drilling and arrest the oilmen...
...would be inaccurate to say that these measures would not have been taken without the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the subsequent rioting. But the fact remains that it took the flames of discord licking the shoes of the Cambridge pols to make them stop playing at politics and start acting like leaders...
...ever since, the U.S. insisted that it only wanted the Communists to "leave their neighbors alone." In short, it seems improbable that the United States, no matter who occupies the White House, is likely to "sell out" Saigon without vindicating its belief that "aggression," if not "national liberation," must stop...